Raise a glass with Brisbane alt-country lover boys Good Will Remedy as they pour out a nice, tall glass of their new single 'Saturday Night'. Cheers.
“I just wanted to write a drinking song, mate, I gotta be honest,” guitarist and vocalist William Lebihan laughs.“We did a couple of country festivals and really enjoyed being around those musicians and music fans, so I thought, 'why not write a drinking song?'.
“I put my act together, got a bit of a theme and away we went. Luckily, when I brought it to the band they did their usual magic and it came out pretty well.”
For 'Saturday Night', William says the inspiration was fairly simple and the song written quite quickly. “You've just got to think, if you were out on a Saturday night and you'd had a few, you're a little bit charged up and someone was going to put a song on, what sort of song would you want to hear?” he says.
“The older we get the earlier the nights become, but 'Saturday Night' is about meeting your mates after a pretty sh.tty week, big smiles, having a few jugs, getting caught up in the moment and realising it's Sunday before you know it.”
'Saturday Night' is the latest offering from Good Will Remedy and follows on from their 2019 EP 'Witness Mark', which saw the band embrace a more simplistic and quick-fire approach to songwriting.
“We uncovered something in 'Witness Mark' that we really liked in the way we go about writing and recording music,” William explains.
“We found that we have to try and keep the energy in the material as much as possible and that means writing it, arranging it and recording it in a very small window.
“I find that if you start working and playing a new song too often, you end up overplaying it and you lose that certain sparkle about it. So we worked in exactly the same way with 'Saturday Night' and all the other seven tracks we recorded – we went in live, recorded them quickly, made decisions quickly and off we went.”
The new single is taken from Good Will Remedy's forthcoming album, 'For The Outsiders', and the band will set out on a small run of shows in support of 'Saturday Night', including launching the album at the new-look Lefty's Music Hall (in Brisbane), now under new management. “It's good to play the new songs,” William says.
“We like to do a bit more of a show than just stand and point-and-shoot; we've got choreography happening, we get up there and bust a move,” he laughs.
“We're not quite the Jackson Five, we can't do any of that stuff, but we try and put a show on that involves the audience as much as we can, so we work hard trying to interact with the crowd. Getting that feel from the crowd is something that really sparks you up a bit.”
